Journal 149 — a trail of deception, life as a yacht influencer, murder in the Philippines, the future of retail, & the murder of Denis Voronenkov
This week — a hit novelist’s trail of deception, life as a yacht influencer, a murder in the Philippines, and the future of retail.
If you only read one thing — The New York Times on the murder of a Russian politician is worth the time.
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He Played by the Rules of Putin’s Russia, Until He Didn’t: The Story of a Murder | The New York Times | Society
A fine piece of reporting, peeling back the layers of Russian power and criminality swirling around the murder of the Russian politician and fixer Denis Voronenkov.
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions | The New Yorker | Culture
This story about a hit novelist’s complex web of fabrications has gone viral this week, unsurprisingly, as it offers readers an intoxicating combination of literary intrigue, society gossip, and schadenfreude.
The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer | Mel | Life
The Yacht Guy has a job that is up there with the strangest in the new economy. He is paid to party on luxury yachts, sleep in their smallest cabin, and publicise their availability and location to his 800,000 Instagram followers.
Retail is broken. Apple’s Angela Ahrendts has a plan | Vogue Business | Business
An interview with Angela Ahrendts, the former CEO of Burberry, who has spent the last five years running Apple’s retail operation. In this interview, she discusses the future of retail.
“Down the Rabbit Hole I Go” | Buzzfeed News | Crime
At its heart this is a simple and tragic story, but it contains an array of troubling tropes of the new media age — catfishing, doxxing, hacking, bitcoin fraud and more.
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